Bahrain's new normal: looking bleakFinancial Times (blog)
The restoration of calm in central Manama, which last month was a battleground between police and protesters, has allowed a sense of normality to return to the capital – even if stability is characterised by armoured personnel carriers parked outside ...

Wait It Out?Las Vegas Review-Journal
In some neighborhoods, the new "normal" is distress: So many foreclosures dot the landscape that all vales are negatively impacted, no matter how pristine their condition. "If a seller can, he may decide to monitor the market and wait [to put his home ...

Mutual Fund QuarterlyInvestor's Business Daily
04/04/2011 07:10 PM ET - Investors endured a bumpy ride in the first quarter in which a gaggle of Black Swan events briefly took over as the new normal. Revolution in the Middle East and North Africa, epic natural disaster and nuclear catastrophe in ...

Holding the fort in JapanStars and Stripes (blog)
There is a 'new normal' evolving.” The aftershocks, unnerving in the early days, happen less frequently and are less noticeable, Debra said. The sun shines at Camp Zama, but it's still no picnic. The Hammers and other families choosing to remain are ...

Joyce: Aviation will reboundTravel Weekly
Asked if the eroding margins are the new normal, Joyce said: “I fundamentally believe the margins will return within the industry. We have seen these cycles before there are periods when economies are suffering and there are periods of time where ...

The President Draws a LineCentury Foundation (blog)
by Gordon Macinnes President Obama may believe that, even in the “new normal” of national politics, education is one area where bipartisan action is possible. His education secretary, Arne Duncan, has been meeting with a bipartisan and bicameral “Gang ...

Tim Cullen's old-school politics in a new schoolMadison.com
Cullen said the episode proved to him an all-or-nothing approach to politics is the new normal. Talk radio, 24-hour news networks and millions of dollars from special interest groups have created a hyperpartisan environment where only the ideologically ...

Roubini Calls for Hard Landing in China (After 2013)FavStocks
The net result is the new normal has been designated a recovery when it it looks more to be a sideways waffle). By contrast, China has trends underway that simply cannot be sustained, but a command economy can keep that sort of thing going well past ...

Youth need jobs, hope for the futureChicago Sun-Times
We cannot allow mass unemployment to be the new normal. We cannot write off an entire generation. At the current rate of jobs generation, it will take six years to make up the jobs lost in the Great Recession. Young people can't wait six years to get ...

Budget cuts 'devastating' communitiesThe Daily Item of Lynn
In 2006 the community decided to take what Maylor called draconian steps and "created a new normal." The steps included cutting municipal staff by 10 percent across the board, including employees from both the town and the school side, which cost him ...

Zero Trash in Laguna Beach ... No Ifs, Ands or ButtsPatch.com
"I was tired of seeing trash in the streets as being the new normal, says McDermott, a Laguna Beach resident. "I wanted to rally the community and local businesses together to clean up the streets around town. In turn, local businesses give discounts ...